by dave petraglia | Mar 24, 2014 | PERSONALITIES | 
(First published in Thought Catalog February 27, 2014) Now we know what it took to be Phillip Seymour Hoffman. His life. We examine a celebrity entertainer’s death.  These are deaths like no other. They are, after all, playing parts. It’s said great actors ‘put...				
					 
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by dave petraglia | Aug 2, 2011 | PERSONALITIES | 
Doctors and suicide.  An epidemic?  How to stop it?  Well, break out the Dijon: hara-kiri is harder with a sandwich in your hand. Doctors shouldn’t die.  Ever.  To learn that 1 of 16 surgeons have or are considering going their own way, something’s got to...